2016/07/29 16:30:01
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A new café, such a charming, well-maintained one too. The kind of ‘look and feel’ cafés everywhere aspire for.
So I’m not sure what the bell curve is for the patrons around here, but I have a feeling that it bulges (or ‘bells’) where it would normally wane or recede, in the broader population. You put a smile on my face, and keep it there for many hours. I am always impressed. And full of admiration. As well as questions (for better or worse).
From this side of the ocean, I notice that Bavaria has not declared a state of emergency yet? Certainly at this point, the authorities could have done so if they wanted to? Would it ever be a consideration for Bavaria to just toss aside the rules, and go full Donbass? Civilian/volunteer patrols? Border checks? And so on? All I know is what I learn through the media, and I can’t help concluding that this region has a giant bulls-eye on it, and I don’t know why.
Welcome to the Cafe, says also the waiter. Please give me a coffee, but in a bigger cup if possible. I got some tremor in my hands and in my heart after reading and watching the procession in Kiev, a beautiful act of courage, love and faith. So, my hands are in tremor because of that, but when you get older, in some cases you may have tremors too…
If You are Aging
If you’re a men and you are aging, be careful on your behaving
Mostly if you have some tremor, in your hands and legs or more
If your head is shaking pointless, could be seen as saying “yes”
Shaking hands are complicated, your mind became frustrated
Writing has became a challenge, nothing easy, hard to manage
Scratching with the pen on paper, drawing lines in form of letter
Trying it hard with sadness, sometimes very close to madness.
When you have to go to toilet, turns out like the russian roulette
Knowingly, man shakes it after, but before, becomes disaster
Lucky if you’re at home, toilet gets pissed, from top to bottom.
Eating soup, so easy ? with the spoon in your hand going crazy
If you could, forget the restaurant, that would be your spoon rant
The spoon will end out in fall, with your soup landing on the wall
Drinking coffee from a small cup ? that would be a hot wake-up.
Sad and comic situation, could this be our next train station ?
Yet, folks, I have to tell you that I think we have forgotten a bit the sense of this Cafe sometimes, the war-rooms have notably some influence in this and of course our mood. I understand this very well but if you can, don’t let yourself thrown away by the wave of negative news. I tell this because I feel sometimes the same thing. That’s not imply the change in your attitude toward the news and also mine. No, this is not the case, but just get some fresh air. Don’t forget, the time is running – don’t you have the feel that is much faster ?
I see over at the mainstream vine-yard there’s plenty of new stuff to keep me busy for awhile. But I feel more comfortable over here where mavericks and misfits fit in better.
I had a root canal extraction yesterday because the new information is that root canals are not good because they harbor bacteria, which can then travel to anywhere in the body. I also am having my old crowns removed because they have mercury glue under them which also is a health hazard. I’ve been pretty exhausted as a result but somehow I get energized here, thanks to you.
I am becoming more and more of a Russiaphile; but of course will never really be Russian. A “phile” is a lover, from the root meaning. If I am a Russia lover, it means for me that I need to be critical of what I see as hurting Russia, and not be her “hurrah patriot.”
To stretch the dental metaphor, Russ has root canals (root problems) and mercury poison that has to go. Russ is as good as it gets, but that good is not good enough to finish off the empire and stop the war on Russia. I have to look at the root causes of war generally, because unless they are attended to, war will always be directed at Russia because it is a sort of lightning rod for the macho Thor’s and Zeus’s thunderbolts.
I was thinking earlier that the best thing I can do for Russ is to stop the war inside of myself, and then project and extrapolate my successes to Russia With Love. The 76 years of my life this time around (77 if I count my womb time) has been one big series of mistakes. That’s not the problem but not learning from my mistakes is.
In a recent article and comments the subject was “why do so many people hate Russia?” That is a very interesting question, almost as entertaining as “why do I hate myself?” If I count ignorance as a fault, why did I not love my teeth early on and prevent the problems I have now? The converse of that is why did I hate my teeth by not taking care of them, and seeking the truth about them, like diet has a great deal to do with teeth, as well as countless other factors. Like animals, we get a grip on the world with our teeth.
I think Russia is hated for her goodness, freedom and truth because she holds up a mirror to self-haters (and therefore projectors to others to relieve the pain) which just causes more pain and desire to obliterate that source.
Russia is very close to the north pole and would be closer if she did sell herself out and prostitute herself to the west in what has become known as Seward’s Folly. He was ridiculed here in the US for buying worthless land at two cents on acre. The irony is that it was really Russia’s Folly, and the tragedy is that it is still going on, although Putin is half-heartedly (I think) trying to reverse that dynamic.
If Russia is to be saved, and therefore the world as well, the root of the problem must be addressed and openly discussed. I am not privy to the discussion within the Kremlin so I have to depend on Russia West, which starts in Florida and works its way across the globe from there; “I heard in on the grapevine vineyard.”
To oversimplify, there are three versions of the human species experiment. Out of Africa and Out of Russia, and the middle ground where they meet. In picturesque language, the blue eyes and fair skin, the brown eyes and dark skin, and the mixed bloods that meet in no man’s land. In political language, the free and sovereign bloods from the North and the South and the traders (sometimes traitors) in the mixed middle.
In geopolitical language, the relatively originary north and south, and contaminated traders between them.
In that discussion about hatred for Russia, I proposed a theory somewhat like the above. One commentator brought up the idea that the Khazars were blue eyed and fair skinned like the Vikings. I did a little research and think I get where he or she got that. The full text was that there were two kind of Khazars, which would fit my theory of mixed bloods from the unmixed North and South.
Of course, we’re all mixed up by now, but the blood has a deep memory. Life is carried in the blood like love and hate.
Russia is trying to save the brown eyes and dark skinned, and guess who is trying to obliterate one and make slaves of the other? Oversimplified beliefs resting on scant evidence is dismissed as “unscientific” as if science is the only true way to knowledge, an unwarranted assumption. Occam’s razor still has a use which is to use the simplest explanation, all things being equal.
I believe that the traders and traitors to the human experiment (patriarchy, not limited to the Jewish Patriarchs) generally and the khazars specifically) somehow have to be integrated into the original plan of man, and welcomed at the table of negotiation. Putin and Lavrov, saints preserve them, are keeping that option open.
As has been remarked, we live in interesting times; and now it has become downright dangerous too. I do what I can by introducing the Love Army into the mix. To me, love is the ultimate reality and healer. To oversimplify yet again, the Armageddon battle is not between War and Peace, a la Tostoy, but between War and Love, a la the Love Army and The Love Government.
Despite your few and fading detractors who have dropped in on the tasting room and spat out your O’Leary Love label on occasion, I’ve taken to thoughtfully sipping your fermenting offerings and letting them play over the palette. They are definitely improving with age. As for mistakes, you’re right! Nothing ventured, nothing gained…….
I’ll take a “tall” (how appropriate for one of the corporate shapers of globalist “culture” to brainwash the whole world with word play and subliminal rhyme, to make small “tall” !) with room for cream. Gotta pack and go to a sister’s late in life wedding 6 hours north.
It’s been a month of inability to keep up with half the Vineyard articles and guest posts, much less the Cafes. If anyone answered any of my paltry half dozen comments during that last lunar cycle, and wanted me to say anything further or just shut up, I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you. Too far away and moving around too much.
I did see a different “Bro”and commented that I am not him, (Kuznetsov aircaraft carrier discussion) but saw nothing further with that handle on it. If it happens again I’ll pick a number and tack it on to the end of the 3 letters.
As soon as I’m back (Monday) I’ll be able to pay much closer attention. So if anything should be brought to my attention this weekend or after, I’ll probably see it.
Meanwhile, I was so inspired by ioan’s masterful cat and mouse epic (I always expect that genre to be playfully puerile, nursery rhyming, but it was so mature, so strategically apt!) that I have resolved to work on an epic of my own. First stanza is done! A few dozen more are percolating. And it is epic! At least in intent……….
Yes, it’s amateur, but so was Albert Einstein’s violin playing throughout his adult life, which play he asserted made his life’s really serious work possible. A balanced brain firing on all cylinders is what the Empire of Loathing abhors! Even those of us of most humble capacities must remember that and resist their unbalancing efforts by daring to create in play, and Love (with verses, music, or participation in other arts) unashamedly, as often as possible!
That’s when I came up with the notion of The Deadly Poets Society in response to a certain X____ a few weeks ago, grousing about this very subject, and its Spring of 2016 expressions of various hues and colors which he so deplored. For those of us who don’t want to die quite yet, and do want our thoughts to be lethal to Empire, I thought “deadly” far more appropriate than “dead” for those of us of a versifying bent. By the way, if continued, I felt Martin’s sole two lines were exactly what the doctor ordered more of. There’s still time! And A. Pope is such a formidable defender from critics that couldn’t write a sonnet to save their lives. So, let ‘er rip, Deadly Poets!
If he (X_____) or anyone answered, I missed it. But within 2-3 days I will be more present, and if the Guns of August do not erupt beyond their current July muffle, will be able to catch up and stay caught up.
But right now, I’ll take that “tall” for the road, sticking a quarter in the juke box as I go, selecting “King of the Road”: https://youtu.be/WrhAC0dFis0
Welcome back Bro ! I’m glad you liked the Cat World poem. I wait for your epic works after such a long absence. How was your moving, how about your family, how is your new home, do you feel good there ? I hope you do. I got a cold in the middle of summer, funny but not a good feeling, hopefully will not last long, I’m not the type who loves to stay in bad for long not to take in consideration that I not allow myself to be sick, you know why. Take care on you and your family.
Welcome back. I missed you. I’d like to add one to the Einstein brain scenario. I read that he and four other top minds, in that field, used to gather as a group and toss ideas around. He apparently claimed that this was also a factor in his success. And I think we all know how he used intuition. For him, math and science are not the whole story.
I relate that idea to this cafe, where we toss ideas, music, poetry and assorted paraphernalia around. Perhaps Einstein himself looks in. Who knows what may emerge from this mix of misfits in an imperial world? I doubt many of us are “kings of the road,” driving high priced four wheel horseless chariots. I like trains, and have used them quite a bit. My granddaddy was a conductor on the Great Northern.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has brushed aside US criticism of mass arrests and a major crackdown on political dissent in the wake of the July 15 failed coup attempt, arguing that they should support the Ankara government instead of standing by “the coup plotters.”
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/29/477495/Turkey-Erdogan-West-criticism-failed-coup-attempt-Gulen-extradition
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160729/1043770595/erdogan-purge-turkey-obama-coup.html
A top American general, Joint Chief of Staff chairman Joseph Dunford, is rushing to Turkey on an unexpected visit, after President Erdogan’s allies directly accused the US of being behind the failed coup attempt in the country and have begun purging members of the Turkish military with ties to the United States.
Yeah, “unexpected” LOL.
The sultan is lamenting he’s not getting any love since the coup, so they’re gonna fly some in.
interesting last paragraph article here.
Washington said coordination could begin once the Russians stop the Syrian Air Force from bombing certain areas and groups in the country and convince it to abide by the outcome of negotiations, which could involve Syrian President Bashar Assad stepping down as part of a transitional process.
july 29
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950508000401
TEHRAN (FNA)- Military sources announced early on Friday that one of the most advanced spy planes of the Russian Army has arrived in the coastal province of Lattakia.
The Russian manufactured “Tupolev Tu-214R” has reportedly flown to the Hmeimim airbase outside the Syrian coastal city of Jableh in Southern Lattakia.
The Tu-214R will likely be used to track terrorist movements around the country, which is similar to what was originally used for before the ceasefire agreement.
Russia’s presidential spokesman announced last week that sending more soldiers to Syria remains in place.
This is some hilarity to keep us all sane:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/29/she-stoops-to-conquer-notes-from-the-democratic-convention/
teranam13,
Thank you for the link. Well worth reading!.
They use the empathy of people for their mind control. They are the biggest human rights violator in the world, bar none, and they are now constantly hyping “human rights violations” in ever country they’re attacking: China, Iran, North Korea, Turkey etc… The countries that are daring to defy their demands. They want them to hand over their sovereignty, and if they don’t, they’ll take it with “our” military.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/07/28/us-anti-china-drumbeat-growing-much-louder.html
The empathetic activists unwittingly become their tools of aggression. Turkey had to rout out the traitors that staged a coup and were attacked for doing so. Many are in Iran fomenting regime change and Iran has to stop it or their country is destroyed like the rest have been. In peaceful times, when they’re not a target, they can afford to be less hyper-vigilant.
No one is responsible for more death and destruction than them. Be very wary of a mass murderer accusing others of human rights violations. The attack jets are busy getting ready for something at the air force bases. The military is unaware they’re being used by the .000000012% to hoover the resources of the countries they’re invading and occupying. They don’t understand that leaving their borders to attack another country is not defense but criminal offense.
Our military should only be used for defense. No one is attacking us. We are attacking them. Shame on those who help them.
Wrote a nice comment while out of town on my android tablet, even managad to make that crap do COPY, now how do I tell it: make PASTE? Speaking about making people helpless – provide a virtual keyboard with all the letters and hundreds of smileys and such, but without any functional commands like CONTROL as in ctrl-c and ctrl-v. Lets have a democracy for everyone, but without any handle to make our elected DO what we elected them for…
bp
BIG news just in.
july 29 17:30 time (Lebanon?)
http://english.almanar.com.lb/adetails.php?eid=280300&cid=23&fromval=1&frid=23&seccatid=28&s1=1
Saudi-backed Team Says Leaving Yemen’s Peace Talks
TalksThe Saudi-backed delegation to Yemen’s UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait said it will leave on Saturday, signaling the collapse of four months of UN-brokered negotiations with Ansarullah movement.
“Today (Friday), we are holding some farewell meetings… and the delegation will leave on Saturday,” delegation spokesman Mohammad al-Emrani told AFP.
https://storify.com/SuaveBel/ +++ The False-Flag Storyline Unravels
Forensic Analysis begins: fake coup is presented as fact by a media now as equally fake.
A journey into a land of make believe – tall tales spun by a new cadre of Yarnies!
Watching the puppet press of a newly installed puppet regime dutifully trot out it’s approved versions of “how it really happened” has been a bittersweet experience. It’s truly terrible to see a whole caste of what were once people with solid journalistic credentials turn themselves into lackeys of a terror state so quickly and easily. One could almost be tempted to feel badly for them -what it must be like to turn oneself inside out – until it is remembered that feelings of empathy must be reserved for they whom these intellectual thugs have turned their back upon… thousands of innocents stripped of their liberty and property, families ruined, lives in tatters, makeshift prisons and torture camps crammed full of the folks who used to read these ghoul’s bylines in homes they will never be returning to!
On the other hand, reading their mendacious reports is like watching a slow moving train wreck – you know what’s going to happen, the crack up of their pretended version of events is inevitable; one simply needs sit above it all watching, like a hawk, for the regime apologists to tangle themselves up in their own web of lies. The three current leaders of the race to diminish former reputation via bowing and scraping to power -two, contributors to the totally taken over almonitor.com, one a writer for the ruined Dogan empire – have left us with some choice morsels to chew upon.
http://en.ria.ru/world/20160729/1043766886/us-turkey-coup-centcom.html
The Commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM) General Joseph Votel denied claims on involvement in the recent unsuccessful coup attempt in Turkey.
A man wrapped in a Turkish flag stands next to military vehicles in front of Sabiha Airport, in Istanbul, Turkey July 16, 2016.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM) General Joseph Votel denied having anything to do with the attempted coup in Turkey, according to a statement released by the US military on Friday.
related news out 29th also is Turk FM Casavoglu (sp?) has just stated there’s no truth to ideas out there that Turkey will leave NATO.
So, according to von Clauswitz’s dictum, nothing is official until denied 3 times at the highest level.
That was #1.
I would like some advice please.
Can anyone tell me what sort of bias Montefiore has regarding Stalin’s history? I’m looking at buying some of his books. After reading Robert Service’s stuff I think anything has to be an improvement, but other opinions would be good. Any other recommendations would also be welcome.
Thanks,
Michael
Does anyone know whats really going down in Armenia at the moment? Seems to be a lot happening but no real analysis anywhere.
I have been reading several articles about who is behind this uprising, namely a lebanese military officer (colonel, I think), who for years has been denied armenian citizenship. He is connected to one of Soros’ groups for “democracy”, and his aim is to keep the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia continuing.
I usually don’t post without links, but the strange thing is that I can’t find these articles again, or rather, I am quite sure that i have found the articles I read earlier, but there is no mentioning of this lebanese military man.
I will keep on googling to see if I can find the name. Maybe somebody else here knows it.
About what I wrote in my reply, I might have been somewhat confused about names, I guess the person I am talking about is Jirair Sefilian, who is mentioned in the articles.
Google him!
Here is a link to an article about it.
http://katehon.com/article/us-wages-hybrid-war-armenia
“…..Ringleaders
Jirair Seiflian is a native of Lebanon who arrived in Armenia to take part in the Karabakh war in the early 1990’s. He has experience from fighting in Lebanon. In Karabakh, he became one of the most famous military leaders and enjoys the support of the Armenian diaspora and war veterans of Karabakh. He is harshly critical of official Yerevan’s position on the Karabakh issue. Seiflian calls for the resumption of hostilities against Azerbaijan after the April 2016 war. On June 20th, 2016, he was arrested on suspicion of smuggling and possessing weapons.
Sefilian created “The Constituent Parliament”, the radical opposition organization. In 2015, he joined the board of the opposition campaign “New Armenia” which attempted a color revolution using as a pretext that the authorities had initiated a referendum on transitioning to a parliamentary form of government. At the head of the opposition force is Raffi Hovannisian who at the presidential elections of 2013 received more than 36% of the vote. He was born and lived his first 31 years in the USA. After the collapse of the USSR Raffi Hovannisian became the first Minister of foreign Affairs in Armenia. “New Armenia” actively uses the Karabakh problem to accuse authorities of surrendering national positions.
The forces connected to seizing the police station (New Armenia) earlier organized protests against Russian military base in Armenia, supported coup d’etat in Ukraine and took active participation in the protest in the Armenian capital last summer. They are closely connected to the US embassy and the Open Society (Soros Foundation) in Armenia…..”
Thanks Tegularius,
Certainly looks like hybrid war from the usual suspects. Its interesting though that its off the radar to a degree, but El Jazeera is reporting it which indicates to me it is western sponsored.
In Syria’s Aleppo Russia is Saving the US’ Face
It is only too clear that the US is losing face in Aleppo: the victory of the government forces in what has turned out to be the most important battle in this war will definitely put President Assad in the circle of statesmen tasked with defining Syria’s future. However, it seems that Russia is not too eager to corner Washington.
One of the most important and heaviest battles of the Syrian war is practically over. The western Aleppo is going to be cleaned up, but first its local residents should be evacuated into a safe place, says Russian online newspaper Vzglyad.
This comes as a serious blow to the image of the US, the outlet says, however Russia seems to be not too eager to “finish off” its ‘American partners”.
The clean-up of the eastern Aleppo will put an end to the US policy in the region, to the six years of the Obama administration’s activity and will indirectly hit the electoral capacity of Hillary Clinton, the newspaper says.
However, it further notes, it seems as if nobody wants to corner the superpower.
The opening of a corridor for the militants who would wish to leave Aleppo is definitely working for the saving of the US’ image.
If the US were not back pedaling with the list of terrorist organizations operating in Syria, it would have been all over by now. The majority of the groups operating within Fatah Halab are the former “clients” of the US.
However “the pride would not allow” Washington to recognize them as terrorists. Because it would further mean either dispersing half of the CIA due to its underqualification or publicly admitting the irrationality of its six-year campaign in Syria.
In such a stalemate Washington is still unable to get rid of ideological clichés and look at its former allies without the rose-colored glasses.
Amid the above developments, the outlet says, nobody seems to pay any attention to the arrival of Russia’s Tu-214R remote reconnaissance aircraft (RF-64514) to its airbase in Hmeymim.
The aircraft, fitted with cutting-edge optical and electronic equipment and radar systems was already used in Syria in February-March, but then was returned back to Russia.
And now it is needed again. It only remains to be seen what for.
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160730/1043777884/russia-us-syria-aleppo.html
Apart from the usual intelligence gathering duties, the Tu-214R might be back using airborne imaging Ground Penetrating Radar to remap and detect new subsurface activities and hidden objects of interest? From what tunnel videos I’ve seen, battles below the surface were and are just as important as those above ground.
The US list of terrorist organizations is not longer wanted. The cessation of hostilities offered a reliable separation into moderate opposition – those who signed the treaty and ceased hostilities – and the terrorists – those who continue to fight.
The terrorists are so bright-minded that it is literally sufficient to offer them survival, that is a human corridor to lay down arms, to make them kill themselves mutually. It sounds cynical but the more they spend their ammunition with infighting and punishments, the less casualties they commit elsewhere, hence the better it gets.
I ve been just eating my lunch a few minutes ago and listened to “debate” regarding Mr. Putin’s visit to Slovenia on National TV (I am from Slovenia). Just few minutes made me sick and I feel like throwing up. It was completely biased, rabid rusophobic.
There was anchor, a “journalist”, an “expert on Russia” and correspondent from Moscow. The main line (and all of them “agreed”) was that Putin is inventing external enemy (“USA”) to hide domestic problems, hijacking mass media to brainwash common Russians into worshipping him…
Real Russian soul in full display:
See María Zakharova in Artek, ( Crimea ) dressing like and bathing with Russian children from all conditions and procedences in the Russian Federation. She is great!
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/many-faces-maria-zakharova-display-crimea-video/ri15891
Then, you have President Putin visiting his own project, “Syrius”, for all gifted children from all conditions and procedences in the Russian Federation can develop their capacities in full, independently of their family income or origin.
See the video till the end to meet “the benefactors” of this project….You will find there some old knowns of us, like Abramovich or that….Deripaschka…., well, the same guy who Mr. Putin went to reprehend in person when he was planning to put in the street some workers…..So, it is not that he told them “remain out of politics and you will follow enjoying your fortunes”, but it seems that he also put them a penitence….Look at the faces….they do not seem very happy, does they? Even when the project is a win-win for all, as expressed by Mr. Putin…..Obviously they would prefer employ some foreign agents…..or spend their money on luxury gifts for their model partner on shift….not to mention that, to this time of the year, they would prefer to be sailing in their mega-yatchs instead of being in the meeting of benefactors of the Syrius project in Sochi…..
LOL, I Love this man!
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/putins-great-initiative-prevent-russian-brain-drain-video/ri15895
Is This a Joke?’: US Media Not Getting Behind Clinton’s Russian Hacker Story
http://sputniknews.com/us/20160730/1043786786/dnc-leak-russia-blame.html
“In a clear sign the entire crowd-control machine is up and running, The New York Times had a long, unprofessional piece about Russian culprits in its Monday editions. It followed Mook’s lead faithfully: not one properly supported fact, not one identified “expert,” and more conditional verbs than you’ve had hot dinners — everything cast as “could,” “might,” “appears,” “would,” “seems,” “may.”
The author then urges to take the last few days’ events “as a signal of what Clinton’s policy toward Russia will look like should she prevail in November.”
“Turning her party’s latest disgrace into an occasion for another round of Russophobia is mere preface, but in it you can read her commitment to the new crusade,” he suggests, adding that Donald Trump is blamed for his “mere willingness to negotiate with Moscow. This is now among his sins.”
“Got that? Anyone who says he will talk to the Russians has transgressed the American code,” he states, voicing his own position that there is no “Russian actor at the bottom of this swamp.”
The latest zio-gay “Iraq has wmds” goebbelsian psy-ops campaign. These get more irrational and absurd with each incarnation. They (the western media)should have been cleaned of these war criminals long ago. Perhaps erdogan could be enticed to come to usa with his anti-coup people and used to flush the pindo media of this subhuman garbage? ;D
Turkish prosecutor claims CIA, FBI trained coup plotters
https://www.rt.com/news/353963-cia-fbi-turkey-coup/
“Gulen loyalists received US training and infiltrated judicial and security institutions.
“This [failed coup] attempt aimed to weaken the state with all its institutions by getting rid of the government completely. Those in the Gulen movement who work in the judicial and security institutions and who received the aforementioned training, took on this task and moved into action,” the document says, as quoted by the Anadolu news agency.
It adds that some other foreign secret services were also involved in training the coup plotters, according to the Turkish Yeni Safak newspaper.”
I wonder who are those other foreign ss involved?
I can think of two….and likely three,
Yeah, E, mosad and the public skool bois (uk) for certain, probably german and french, as well.
These changes are( to quote) not directly connected to the September elections per government spokesperson.
https://www.rt.com/politics/353733-putin-replaces-heads-of-russian/
http://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2016/07/30/1144105/iran-russia-plan-to-ink-70-project-cooperation-deal
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran and Russia are to sign a cooperation deal on more than 70 industrial projects, Russian media reports said on Saturday.
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said the plans were decided in a meeting with Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi, the Moscow Times reported.
re: managerial changes on Russia. this article was just called to my attention
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/07/putin-resuffles-deck-personnel-swaps.html
Eerie prejau vu this is here.
I don’t follow nor could care less about this multibillionaire boondoggle extravaganza which the public gets to foot the bills for, & wasn’t aware the athletes were already there.
but it’s too much like a warning ahead of something, not necessarily here of course, that they just love to let out because they’re so GD smug & arrogant.
Tomorrow and/or August 1 is Lughnasa, named after the Gaelic fall harvest festival, but that’s not what it is to them.
Regardless how/what it is shows up, the sultan better be wearing his Ironman suit all this weekend.
http://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2016/07/30/1143851/about-100-athletes-evacuated-from-rio-olympic-village-building-amid-fire
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A fire erupted at the Olympic Village in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, prompting an evacuation of about 100 athletes, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said.
The fire started in the underground car park at an Australia team building with smoke rising up, the Committee said in a Saturday statement.
JULY 30
UK’s Hammond under Criticism over Remarks on Saudi-Yemen War
British lawmaker Ann Clwyd has called for a probe into statements made by Philip Hammond, the former UK foreign secretary, on the Saudi war on Yemen.
Hammond, who is now the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, originally stated that the Saudi actions in Yemen comply with humanitarian law.
“For some time, Saudi Arabia – using British bombs and planes – may have committed war crimes on Yemeni civilians,” she said.
“UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia topped £3.3bn in the first year of the Saudi-led conflict in the Yemen. The UN Panel of Experts on the Yemen has listed 119 coalition exercises relating to war violations, with Human Rights Watch reporting 36 unlawful strikes – some of which may amount to war crimes – which have killed at least 550 civilians since the conflict began. We need to know the truth,” she added.
http://english.almanar.com.lb/adetails.php?eid=280410&cid=22&fromval=1&frid=22&seccatid=48&s1=1
Been reading the Saker for sometime now and enjoy the commentary and comments. I am a first time commenter.
Would like to comment on what is presently happening in Europe (from my perspective) as a result of the invasion of young Muslim males from the war zones of the middle east and south Asia.
It seems to me that this so called migration of males in the last few years is nothing more than Trojan Horses being set up to concur Europe and Christianity. This pattern of warfare is not new as history shows. It seems to me that the leaders and governing of Europe must be very asleep not to see the reality of this.
As I see it this invasion is real and can only be reversed by throwing out of each country invaded all the migrants and their families.
Words have attached to them ideas. If we fail to use the correct words to describe what is happening around us and instead the words associated with political correctness then we will not see the elephant in the room. One of the attributes of co nscience that guides us in a world of lies and confusion is one’s inner sense of discrimination. Notice in the corrupt political world of political correctness discrimination is is a bad word? We cannot see reality objectively without objective conscience.
The US seems to be following the path of Europe bet we still have soon time to correct our path. What makes the US a much more difficult country to conquer for these invading Muslims that don’t assimilate is that we have a much larger population and unlike the Europeans we are armed so when the snake raises it’s head to strike it can be cut off.
In conclusion my hope is that conscience will prevail and that people will awake from their sleep, remove our current criminal rulers from governing and replace them with sane people that reason objectively.
Please clarify which of the countries from South Asia. Middle East and North Africa I am aware of. The South Asian Countries essentially comprise the member states of SAARC.
followup story on the theme of those tunnels around MOSUL, another key city looking to fall b4 2016 end & despite this being Iraq not Syria someone mentioned if that super-snooper ELINT A/C the Russians have brought back in (was taken back to Russia in spring 2016) has capability of some kind of side-looking GP Radar for seeing tunnels many meters underground.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950509000277
Sat Jul 30, 2016 1:6
Iraqis’ Massive Airstrikes in Mosul Destroys ISIL’s Secret Tunnel, Vehicles
The Iraqi fighter jets also blew up the ISIL’s secret tunnels and bases as well as two military vehicles, equipped with missiles and missile-launchers in al-Osajah village in the Northern parts of Qayara base.
As their latest achievement in Southern Mosul, the army purged the ISIL terrorists from al-Osajah village near Haj Ali town of Qayara region as the last ISIL base on the left side of Tigris river’s Eastern coasts.
Nineveh, from where 2600 years ago Ashurbanipal reigned:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/images/fob-marez-loc_wpost_21dec2004.jpg
Worth reading.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-30/dod-admits-us-global-hegemony-threatened-china-russia-persistently-disordered-world
“The future world order will see a number of states with the political will, economic capacity, and military capabilities to compel change at the expense of others,” reads the paper entitled “The Joint Force in a Contested and Disordered World.”
“Rising powers including for example, China, Russia, India, Iran, or Brazil have increasingly expressed dissatisfaction with their roles, access, and authorities within the current international system,” it states.
We need some humor for these days of crazy politics. Look at this attractive schedule
SAVE THE DATE DNC Schedule of Events
Democratic National Convention Schedule
Monday, July 25, 2016
11:15 AM
Free lunch, medical marijuana, and bus ride to the Convention
Forms distributed for Food Stamp enrollment.
1:30 PM
Group Voter Registration for Illegal Immigrants.
3:15 PM
Address on “Being the Real You”
Rachel Dolezal, former Head of the Seattle NAACP and
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, well-known Native American
4:30 PM
“How to Bank $200 Million as a
Public Servant and claim to be broke”
Hillary Clinton
4:45 PM
How to have a successful career
Without ever having a job, and
Still avoid paying taxes!
A Seminar Moderated by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson
5:00 PM
Medals of Freedom presentation to
Army deserter Bo Bergdahl
For serving with Honor and Distinction
National Security Advisor Susan Rice
5:30 PM
Invitation-only Autograph Session
Souvenir photographs of Hillary and
Chelsea dodging Sniper Fire in Bosnia
6:30 PM
General vote on praising Baltimore rioters,
And on using the terminology
“Alternative Shoppers” instead of “Looters”
7:30 PM
Breakout session with Bill Clinton
For women on avoiding harassment
8:30 PM
The White House “Semantics Committee” Meeting
General vote on re-branding “Muslim Terrorism” as
“Random Acts of Islamic Over-Exuberance”
9:00 PM
“Liberal Bias in Media“ How we can make it work for you!
Tutorial sponsored by CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, PBS, NPR, MSNBC,
The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Huffington Post
With Guest Speaker, Brian Williams
9:15 PM
Tribute Film to the Brave Freedom Fighters
Still incarcerated at GITMO
Michael Moore
9:45 PM
Personal Finance Seminar –
“Businesses Don’t Create Jobs”
Special guest Pocahontas
aka Elizabeth Warren
11:00 PM
Short film,
“Setting Up Your Own Illegal Email Server While Serving in a Cabinet Post, While at the Same Time Setting Up Your Own Money-Laundering, Slush-Fund ‘Foundation’, and How to Pretend It’s No Big Deal”
Hosted by Hillary Clinton
11:30 PM
Official Nomination of Hillary
Bill Maher and Chris Matthews
This is indeed hillaryous …
Some more on Argentina, Kirchner and Mauricio Macri:
Matias Vernego: Neoliberalism Resurgent: What to Expect in Argentina after Macri’s Victory
Posted on December 14, 2015 by David Dayen
The election of businessman Mauricio Macri to the presidency in Argentina signals a rightward turn in the country and, perhaps, in South America more generally. Macri, the candidate of the right-wing Compromiso para el cambio (Commitment to Change) party, defeated Buenos Aires province governor Daniel Scioli (the Peronist party candidate) in November’s runoff election, by less than 3% of the vote.
Macri is the wealthy scion an Italian immigrant family that made its money on the basis of government contracts. He went on to work for the family business and later, defying his father’s wishes, became president of the most popular professional soccer club in the country, Boca Juniors. In 2007, he won election as mayor of the capital city, Buenos Aires—the springboard for his eventual election to the presidency.
This is a momentous change in Argentina’s history, since it is the first time that a right-wing party has won the presidency by electoral means. In the past, conservatives had only gained power through military coups or by disguising neoliberal policies under more progressive electoral promises and the mantle of a left-of-center party—as in Carlos Menem’s Peronist government in the 1990s.
Macri’s economic team includes among its most prominent members Alfonso Prat-Gay, an ex-president of the country’s Central Bank who also worked for JP Morgan Chase. He will be the next finance minister. Federico Sturzenegger, secretary of economic policy in the Economics Ministry under infamous finance minister Domingo Cavallo—author of the main economic policies of the 1990s—is likely to be the next Central Bank president. In other words, the economic team clearly signals a return to the market-friendly policies of the 1990s. This is also true on the foreign policy front, were Macri has already announced that he intends to use the so-called “democratic clause” of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), the regional trade agreement, to exclude Venezuela for alleged violations of democratic norms. (Macri has backed off that plan since the victory of the right-wing coalition in Venezuela’s recent parliamentary elections.) He has also signaled a closer alignment with the United States.
The economic program of the new administration is quite clear, even though Macri tried to hide his economic advisors before the election, to reduce the impact of their unpopular views at the polls. They will unify the foreign exchange market, in which there is currently a large gap between the official and black-market exchange rates. This implies a “maxi-devaluation” of the peso, from around nine to about 15 pesos to the dollar (assuming that the current black market level is their desired nominal exchange rate). The effects of a depreciation of this magnitude will be massive.
In contrast to previous devaluations—most recently in 2002, after more than ten years of a fixed one-to-one peso-to-dollar exchange rate under Cavallo’s so-called “Convertibility Plan”—this one is not caused by an external crisis. While it is true that Argentina’s current account balance is negative, and that its reserves are relatively low, there is no significant danger that Argentina will default on its external debt now.
The current account deficit is not big, by historical standards or in comparison to other countries in the region, and international reserves can cover the country’s immediate obligations. Besides, under current conditions, with low international interest rates, it would be relatively easy to attract capital flows with higher interest rates, and borrow in international markets. (That would certainly be easier if Argentina could finalize an agreement with the so-called “vulture funds,” the holdout bondholders that did not agree to the rescheduling of debt after the last default.) And, if anything, Macri’s (unnecessary) promise to give in to all the vulture funds’ demands and rapprochement with the United States and International Monetary Fund (IMF) would resolve any short-run problems in financing the current account deficit.
The question, then, is why the Macri government would promote a huge depreciation of the currency with no clear external crisis on the horizon. The notion that the depreciation would solve the current account deficits is fraught with problems. Not only is the external situation not dire—so depreciation would be a “solution” to a non-existent problem—but there is also no evidence that exports will boom after a depreciation. Exports respond more to the growth of the global economy than to a change in relative prices. So for example, China will not demand significantly more soybeans from Argentina, as a result of lower prices, if the Chinese economy is not growing faster.
Actually, the only significant way in which the depreciation will reduce the external problems of Argentina is by causing a recession. Depreciations tend to reduce real wages, since the increase in the price of imported goods leads to inflation, which is not fully recovered by workers. As a result, consumption declines, with a negative impact on economic growth. Macri and his economic team have been very explicit about the need for a huge devaluation and the closing of the gap between the official and the black-market (or “blue,” as it is known in Argentina) exchange rate. This has already triggered an inflationary surge, as noted by the outgoing Economics Minister Axel Kiciloff.
The reason for the devaluation is precisely to cause inflation and a recession, both of which would weaken working-class bargaining power and, as a result, lead to lower real wages. And that is the ultimate goal of the new Macri administration. He has explicitly said so, in one of the videos that his campaign tried to suppress. The video shows him suggesting that the way out of the problems of the 1990s—when devaluation was not an option due to the Convertibility Plan—was to reduce real wages to increase external competitiveness. The maxi-devaluation of the peso will most likely be accompanied by a “fiscal adjustment plan” or, simply put, austerity. This would push the economy further into recession, reducing the bargaining power of workers even more.
Some skeptics suggest that Macri cannot pursue the classic IMF economic package of devaluation and fiscal adjustment, since that would bring about both inflation and recession, a politically explosive combination. However, the administration will deflect political problems caused by the economic crisis that these policies will trigger by suggesting that both inflation and the recession are the results of the negative legacy of twelve years of “populism” under the previous two administrations. In fact, Macri is already doing this, with intensive media support, suggesting that the inflation since the announcement of the depreciation is just a correction to its true level. One can easily see how higher unemployment would be justified in the same fashion, as an adjustment to the true and sustainable level.
In other words, the Macri government will cause a crisis that does not exist right now—though the economic situation may be difficult and growth in the last three years has not been not high—but blame the effects of its neoliberal policies on the previous government. The idea would most likely be to weather a political storm over the next couple of years and then—after resolving the issues with the vulture funds and normalizing relations with IMF—start borrowing abroad again. That would help promote growth again in time for a re-election campaign in 2019. Growth would be also facilitated by the fact that the economy would be coming out of a crisis, with real wages considerably lower and the working class well-disciplined.
Also, Macri will reduce or eliminate export taxes on grain and soybeans (known as retenciones, or “retentions”), strengthening the position of the ruling elites. The reorientation of the economy toward primary-goods (agricultural and mineral) production, along with a larger role for finance, has been the strategy of the Argentine elites since the last military dictatorship. That is why there is such continuity between the economic plans of José Martínez de Hoz under the military dictatorship of the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Domingo Cavallo under Menem in the 1990s, and (one should expect) Adolfo Prat-Gay under Macri in the coming years.
The initial recession and cuts in retenciones would significantly reduce government revenue and most likely lead to larger fiscal deficits. Hence, austerity will actually worsen the fiscal balance, contrary to what the Macri and his advisors suggest. The key is to remember that austerity policies are not designed to reduce fiscal deficits, even if that is offered up as a rationalization; they are a political instrument for disciplining labor. [And if it is any consolation, at least the adjustment will be done by a right-wing party, in contrast to Brazil, where the same program, essentially, is being pushed by the Workers’ Party; and yet the right-wing forces are also trying to bring the left of center government of Dilma Rousseff down; more on that on another post].
In fact, the coming larger fiscal deficits will most likely be used to try to cut social welfare expenditures, which increased significantly during the administration of the outgoing president Cristina Fernández and her predecessor (and husband) Néstor Kirchner. It would not be surprising if Macri tries to privatize social security once again, something that Menem accomplished in the 1990s, and which had to be reversed in the 2000s as a result of the private system’s complete failure to provide a decent retirement for seniors.
But if the Macri administration is a throwback to the neoliberal era of Menem, it is important to remember that the current historical context is very different. Back in the 1990s, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union gave the neoliberal policies of the infamous Washington Consensus a status of unquestionable truth. Supposedly, ideology had vanished and history had come to an end. No alternative was politically possible. Since then, the 2008 global Great Recession has shown the world the perils of unfettered capitalism, and even if the “Keynesian moment” was brief and austerity policies have reasserted themselves, at least it is widely understood that the “free market” is no solution for the problems of development in a globalized economy.
The socioeconomic situation in Argentina is also very different. Back then, the economy was coming out of two bouts of hyperinflation, a whole decade of very low growth with very high unemployment levels and very low real wages, two decades of social conflict with a considerably weakening of the trade unions, several military coups, and an unresolved human-rights crisis from the last dictatorship. Now, the economy has grown at a healthy pace over the last decade, though with slower growth over the last three years. Unemployment remains at relatively low levels, and though inflation is relatively high, real wages have still grown significantly over the decade, with a considerable reduction of inequality.
Further, not only has the reorganization of the economy strengthened the working class, but civil society has managed to bring violators of human rights to justice, and finally come to terms with the nefarious legacy of the dictatorship, something unique in the region. The new government does not control congress, and the election was close, signaling a divided country. In short, society is more organized and better prepared to face the onslaught of neoliberal policies this time around.
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See also:
Philip Pilkington: Paul Krugman Pushes Factually Inaccurate Arguments About Argentina to Support Discredited Monetarist Ideas
Posted on February 6, 2014
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/02/philip-pilkington-paul-krugman-pushes-factually-inaccurate-arguments-argentina-support-discredited-monetarist-ideas.html
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The Euro Is Killing Southern Europe
What Spain (and Portugal, and Greece, etc.) could learn from Argentina’s successful default and devaluation.
By Matthew Yglesias
May 1, 2012
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MMT, ARGENTINA, AND VIEWS ON INFLATION
http://www.economonitor.com/lrwray/2012/10/09/mmt-argentina-and-views-on-inflation/
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/spain_greece_and_portugal_should_quit_the_euro_it_s_the_only_way_to_save_their_doomed_economies_.html
Meanwhile….Mr. Zubarov “resign” as Russian Federation Ambassador to the Ukraine and President Putin appoints Mr. Mikhail Babich…..a veteran from Ryazan and the KGB…..with an awsome curricula… a new generation arriving and taking over…….oh, yeah!
http://en.kremlin.ru/catalog/persons/281/biography
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/07/putin-resuffles-deck-personnel-swaps.html
july 31
news on Yemen/S.A. southern border war, where now it looks to be being increasingly fought inside S.A. borders.
It’s thanks to that Saud prince Salman’s military planning & strategist’s genius, easily on par with that of Churchill.
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Yemeni army and popular forces continued their advances against the Saudi forces in the Southern parts of the kingdom by seizing back a number of strategic military positions and heights.
The Yemeni forces are now in full control of Qashaba and Sia military positions and the Sheibani hilltops in Najran province.
The Yemeni army and popular forces also destroyed the Saudi forces’ military equipment and hardware, including an Abrams tank and a Hummer military vehicle as well as several other armored vehicles in the clashes.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950510000627
JULY 31
Check out the ‘neutral’ UN’s negotiating position & plan presented to the Yemenis!
yemen’s Houthi movement rejects UN peace plan
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/31/477830/Yemen-Houthis-UN-peace-plan
The Hadi delegates said earlier Sunday that they had accepted the UN plan which stipulated that HOUTHIS and allies withdraw from three major cities they control in Yemen, including the capital Sana’a, and hand over their heavy arms. That plan said if Houthis met those conditions, political dialogue on a final solution could start.
Yemen peace talks began on April 21 in Kuwait City. The warring sides had agreed on a ceasefire before the negotiations began although the Houthis have repeatedly accused Saudi Arabia, which backs Hadi through air strikes and ground operation in Yemen, of violating the truce agreement.
So I’m pulling out my red, white, and maple leaf — yet again (do I hear groaning? I don’t blame you :-) — just to comment quickly on ‘Five Eyes’.
I think the impression of this as Anglo solidarity among five countries may misrepresent the nature of this agreement.
“In 1946, Britain and the United States signed the United Kingdom-United States of America agreement (UKUSA), a multilateral treaty to share signals intelligence amongst the two nations and Britain’s Commonwealth partners, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Known as the ” Five Eyes” agreement, the treaty was such a closely-guarded secret that Australia’s Prime Minister was kept in the dark until 1973!”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/echelon-today-the-evolution-of-an-nsa-black-program/5342646
Ah, partners in partnership once again. :-) Canada was still interlocked with Britain’s Parliament at the time. After signing the British North American Act of 1949, “the Parliament of Canada was thereafter allowed to amend the Canadian constitution in many areas if its own jurisdiction without first obtaining the consent of the British Parliament. However, the approval of the British Parliament was still needed for wider constitutional changes, such as those involving provincial and Federal responsibilities.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_North_America_Acts#British_North_America_.28No._2.29_Act.2C_1949
Full patriation from the United Kingdom came in 1982 with the Canada Act.
This is not to absolve Canada of responsibility in 2016, but just to show some of the background leading to the creation of “Five Eyes”. This was 2 empires plus 3 colonies, more than 5 consenting nations.
Five eyes means that our intelligence services (both Canada and Australia) loyalty is to the US. For that reason we can never break away from the US, no mater what politicians or political parties we elect.
We have just had an election and the government has backed the US on the Hague SCS scam and and pissed off China. Apparently an article in Chinese news about Australia making a good target.
China is by far our biggest trade partner and carried us through the GFC.
Looks like Australia is about to sacrifice itself in the interests of US hegemony.
Found the article you referred to:
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/997320.shtml
Sorry to hear that Australia’s new govt is dragging it’s people and nation into this SCS fight. Maybe they’ll do a 180 degree turn out of it yet?
RT is running a story of Indian workers in Saudi Arabia starving. India having sent food to them. And arranging their repatriation back home. India is one of the most powerful countries in the World. Certainly in the Middle East/South Asia region. Why they tolerate the mistreatment of their migrant workers is beyond me. Indian troops should be on their way to Saudi Arabia right now. And the Saudi’s told that if any harm comes to anymore of their citizens they will destroy that country. I doubt they’d have a hard time getting Iran, Syria,Iraq,and Yemen, on board for that.If India fully allied with Russia and China it would be a horrible disaster for the West. I think the US would be calling the Saudis and telling them to protect those workers at all cost. Or they’d stand aside while India seeks revenge on them.
https://www.rt.com/news/354107-india-food-starving-workers-saudi/
“Why they tolerate the mistreatment of their migrant workers is beyond me. Indian troops should be on their way to Saudi Arabia right now. ”
Between India and Saudi Arabia is Pakistan on the way, and the two countries (S.A and Pakistan) are both Muslim countries and have very good relations, the latter also has nuclear weapons. India and Pakistan are at odds over Kashmir region and their relations are not the best. China and Pakistan are in good relations (to constrain India) It’s complicated. Currently, India makes a slalom between Russia and USA (which one to choose, just not to loose)
I actually think this is one point Pakistan and India might agree on (not the military action possibly). I suspect there are also a lot of Pakistani migrants in the Gulf states also being mistreated. And since both Pakistan and India are nuclear states and powerful in that region(India more than Pakistan.But still Pakistan for the region). Its time either together ,or separately, they do something to end the mistreatment of their citizens.
For the german reading folks here in the cafe the latest monday-version. The Wednesday – version in English coming in two days – – –
“und morgen am Dienstagabend beginnen wieder die Anfänge = Mars, neuer Verknüpfungen = Schütze, die uns schon von März bis Mai begleitet haben und denen jetzt bis in den September Zeit gegeben ist – – –
beispielsweise ein gutes Omen für das Treffen der Präsidenten der Türkei und Russlands am Schwarzen Meer” und seine Vorbereitungen
http://mundanestagebuch.blogspot.de/2016/08/1.html